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Hill, Alexander.
Boilerman's Heid: A Biography of Trade Union Leader John Hill (1863- 1945) Millen...
Publisher: Privately printed, Ambleside;
Date of publication: 2000
£45.00
New Edition. Softcover quarto, pp. vi, 178. Limp cloth to spine and lower cover, with transparent front cover showing pictorial title page below. Clean and tight: a Near Fine copy. No annotation o...
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[Anonymous].
The Biographical Magazine; Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons ...
Publisher: Printed for Effingham Wilson and Sherwood, Neely & Jones, London;
Date of publication: 1819
£150.00
FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo, pp. [198] & 1[98], printed recto only, with engraved roundel portrait to each entry (192 in total, 96 per volume). Contemporary maroon half calf with gilt titles and ruling ...
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Baker, William King & Richardson, Anne W. (editor)
John T. Dorland.
Publisher: Headley Brothers, London;
Date of publication: 1898
£30.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 433, [3] catalogue. 35 illustrations to plates, with tissue-guards, including portrait frontispiece. Publishers’ maroon reeded cloth, with bevelled boards, gilt tit...
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Newby, Eric.
A Small Place in Italy.
Publisher: HarperCollins, London;
Date of publication: 1994
£50.00
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo, pp. [12], 210, [2]. Publishers’ mid blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth clean and bright. Inscrib...
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Rintelen, Captain [Franz] von.
The Return of the Dark Invader.
Publisher: Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1935
£65.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiii, [1], 266. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Upper corner of upper board very slightly bruised otherwi...
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Barea, Arturo.
Lorca: The Poet and His People.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of publication: 1944
£45.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 103, [1], printed on heavy grey paper. Publishers’ bright orange cloth with gilt titles to spine in light orange dust-jacket with red and black titles. Spine tips light...
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Williams, Lady Gertrude.
W. E. Williams : Educator Extraordinary.
Publisher: Penguin Collectors’ Society, London;
Date of publication: 2000
£25.00
FIRST EDITION: Limited Edition of 500 copies only. Octavo, pp. 148. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped blue-and-white striped dust-jacket with portrait of W.E. to lower c...
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Frankau, Pamela.
Jezebel.
Publisher: Rich & Cowan, London;
Date of publication: 1937
£85.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 210, [2]. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine an small dragon motif to upper board, in price-clipped purple dust-jacket. Spine tips a little creased; cont...
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Sparks, Jared.
The Life of George Washington.
Publisher: Alphons Durr, Leipzig;
Date of publication: 1859
£45.00
FIRST THUS. Published originally as the first volume in the 12 volume set “The Writings of Washington”, and here presented in an abridged form as a separate work. Octavo, pp. xii, 371, [1]. Brown h...
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Kirk, Rev. John.
The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography.
Publisher: Jarrold & Sons, London;
Date of publication: 1866
£50.00
Fourth Edition. Octavo, pp. xxii, [2], 351, [9] catalogue. Portrait frontispiece of Mrs Wesley engraved by W.H.Gibbs. Publishers’ pebbled bottle-green cloth with bevelled boards, gilt titles and de...
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Sisman, Adam.
John Le Carre: The Biography.
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London;
Date of publication: 2015
£110.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xx, 652. Numerous monochrome photographic images to plates. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Very minor creas...
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Phillimore, Sir Robert
Laocoon Translated From the Text of Lessing
Publisher: Macmillan and Co, London;
Date of publication: 1874
£85.00
FIRST EDITION. Large octavo, pp. lxii, [2] List of Illustrations and errata, 360. Three mounted Woodbury type illustrations to plates including frontispiece portrait of Lessing, each with tissue gu...
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